"proportion" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It reached epidemic proportions last week, when five of the six games played were decided by a shootout.
- In 1528 the disease reached epidemic proportions for the fourth time and with great severity.
- Incompetence has, I fear, reached epidemic proportions of late in our local police force.
- This problem reached epidemic proportions among blacks, where now more than four out of every 10 families are headed by women.
- By the mid-1979 corruption reached epidemic proportions as the economy collapsed.
- In some areas, outbreaks have been of almost epidemic proportions, affecting crop production, livestock and human health.
- The killings resumed in 1982 and in 1984 they reached epidemic proportions.
- The illness is now found in about 35 states, and it reached epidemic proportions on parts of Long Island last summer.
- Although sign theft has always been a problem along this highway, thefts reached epidemic proportions when the pending number change was announced.
- With the help of the crusaders and other travelers, leprosy reached epidemic proportions by the 13th century.
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